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Your body is beautiful and complex. So is mine. Sometimes our bodies donʼt work so well. Sometimes we donʼt know what to do about it. Imagine if your body and my body are malfunctioning in the same way. Now, what if we found a thousand other people in the same boat... Could we help each other feel better? Could sharing our health data with each other help us figure out which treatments to try? If we got enough people together, could we even do our own medical research studies?

A fascinating talk on how the mind learns and stores memory, and also shares some of his most recent findings.

The brainiest creatures share a secret - an odd kind of brain cell involved in emotions and empathy that may have accidentally made us conscious

What if every scientist could share their data as easily as they tweet about their lunch? Michael Nielsen calls for scientists to embrace new tools for collaboration that will enable discoveries to happen at the speed of Twitter. A physicist turned writer, Michael Nielsen believes online communication and collaboration tools are revolutionizing the way we make scientific discoveries.

This doesn't just show the growth of mobile. it shows the growth of gaming platforms, where gaming will grow and how gaming will become ubiquitous.  it also shows how the ability to share our message and tools is growing year on year alng with the potential for collaboration

the head of sakai explaining how he wants education to be open, not a black box and he doesn't want people to have to wait for their institution to get the best system.  Fascinating presentation. Highlighting that developers of LMS's share our vision so they're willining to cooperate if we approach in the right way. 

The Coming Crisis In Organizing Work Bollier reports that Roundtable attendees shared a growing concern that there is an unacknowledged crisis brewing in the workforce and the way it's organized. "My sense is that there is a constant move toward globalization, outsourcing and the 'freeagent nation', said attendee Dwayne Spradlin of InnoCentive, Inc. "People are engaging the workplace in a very different way. I think over the next five years we're going to see a massive shift in demographics among young people and how they engage their organizations. In general, companies are wholly unprepared for what's about to come."

The first online 3-D interactive search tool of the human body was released today.  It allows a user to view and navigate the human anatomy, male or female, down to the finest detail-from the muscles and deep muscles to the nerves, arteries, vessels, and bones. This new tool, called BodyMaps, was developed by Healthline Networks, a company that provides medical information to consumers online, and GE Healthyimagination, a Web-based platform that shares and promotes projects that focus on consumer health, such as apps or healthy how-to videos.

The Giome Concept GIOME is a completely new concept in gastroenterology based on the human Physiome project originally proposed by James Bassingthwaighte in 1995. The purpose of the GIOME project is to facilitate integrative modeling of physiological and pathophysiological processes in the gastrointestinal tract and sharing of data, ideas and designs generated by gastroenterologists worldwide.

Sweet game teaching RNA principles through fun. Also allows experimentation and sharing through community. 

Human bodies contain for over 50% of water. And i am a drinking water engineer, so it is necessary to share this with you.

came across this today...thought i share with the group

About 400 people interested in serious self-tracking meet for the inaugural Quantified Self conference in May this year. Self-tracking means monitoring quantities like your weight, sleep, location, messages, genes, body chemistry, performance, productivity, or any other of a thousand metrics. Self-trackers arrived from all over the world to share and explore the whys and hows of self-tracking.